Wednesday, January 3: Spotlight: Columbia Pictures 100 Years - The 1920s and 1930s

[CBHagman]

This morning we finish up SOTM Robert Mitchum's roster of films before proceeding to the wholesome Andy Hardy series.

Tonight TCM begins a tribute to the 100 years of Columbia Pictures, and just check out that schedule!

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

1:30 AM Angel Face (1953)
A woman murders her family for their money.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-G CC: Y


3:15 AM Where Danger Lives (1950)
A psychopath draws her doctor into her murderous schemes.
Dir: John Farrow Cast: Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains
Runtime: 84 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


4:45 AM The Racket (1951)
A tough cop has to fight his superiors in order to battle the mob.
Dir: John Cromwell Cast: Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


6:30 AM Crossfire (1947)
A crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

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8:15 AM Macao (1952)
A man on the run in the Far East is mistaken for an undercover cop.
Dir: Josef Von Sternberg Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix
Runtime: 80 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

9:45 AM Second Chance (1953)
A crooked boxer falls for a gangster's moll on the run in Mexico.
Dir: Rudy Maté Cast: Robert Mitchum, Linda Darnell, Jack Palance
Runtime: 82 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


11:15 AM The Locket (1946)
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
Dir: John Brahm Cast: Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum
Runtime: 86 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y


1:00 PM Undercurrent (1946)
A sheltered woman realizes that either her husband or his mysterious brother is a psychopath.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum
Runtime: 116 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

3:00 PM Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)
Attractive dramatics teacher Gilbert becomes the center of innocent Andy's busy world. He is at first infatuated with her, then blurts his love and asks for her hand in marriage. After learning that she is engaged to another he goes into a tailspin, seemingly never to recover, but Judge Hardy and the rest of Andy's family ...
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke Ii Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker
Runtime: 85 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

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4:30 PM Andy Hardy Meets the Debutante (1940)
A teenage boy goes into debt to court a Manhattan socialite.
Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Cecilia Parker
Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

6:00 PM Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944)
Andy Hardy's college career is threatened by his attraction to three coeds - two of whom are identical twins - in this light-hearted family comedy.
Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden
Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

What's on Tonight: Spotlight: Columbia Pictures 100 Years - The 1920s and 1930s

8:00 PM It Happened One Night (1934)
A spoiled rich girl escapes her father, who wants to stop her from marrying a worthless playboy. En route to New York, she gets involved with an out-of-work newsman and the couple sets off on a hitchhiking expedition.
Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
Runtime: 105 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

10:00 PM Woman Haters (1934)
The Three Stooges join the "Women Haters" club and vow to have nothing to do with the fair sex. Larry marries a girl anyway and attempts to hide the fact from Moe and Curly as they take a train trip.
Dir: Archie Gottler Cast: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard
Runtime: 19 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC:


10:30 PM The Awful Truth (1937)
A divorced couple keeps getting mixed up in each other's love lives.
Dir: Leo McCarey Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Ralph Bellamy
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: N

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12:15 AM You Can't Take It with You (1938)
A girl from a family of freethinkers falls for the son of a conservative banker.
Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart
Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

2:30 AM Man's Castle (1933)
An unemployed man turns to crime when he gets his girlfriend pregnant.
Dir: Frank Borzage Cast: Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Marjorie Rambeau
Runtime: 69 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC:

4:00 AM The Belle of Broadway (1926)
Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. But she allows a young American performer, Marie Duval, to perform as the Madame Adele of old, and both become the darlings of Paris.
Dir: Harry O. Hoyt Cast: Betty Compson, Herbert Rawlinson, Edith Yorke
Runtime: 60 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-G CC:


5:00 AM Broadway Musketeers (1938)
Three childhood friends get mixed up with gangsters.
Dir: John Farrow Cast: Margaret Lindsay, Ann Sheridan, Marie Wilson
Runtime: 62 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

[Auggie]

1. The Robert Mitchum films catch my eye ...

the DVR will be busy.